Christian Webersik

Additional information:

My research interests are climate change and security, post-conflict studies, natural hazards and sustainable development.

Publications:

Books

Christian Webersik (2010) Climate Change and Security: A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges, Praeger Security International series, Security and the Environment, series ed. P. H. Liotta, Praeger Publishers/PSI.

Christian Webersik (2004) Reinterpreting Environmental Scarcity and Conflict: Evidence from Somalia. D.Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford.

Journal Articles

Christian Klose and Christian Webersik (2010) Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human population growth in Haiti and Dominican Republic, Nature Precedings.

Christian Webersik, Miguel Esteban, and Tomoya Shibayama (2010) The Economic Impact of Future Increase in Tropical Cyclones in Japan, Natural Hazards, vol. 55, no.2, Springer.

Miguel Esteban, Christian Webersik, and Tomoya Shibayama (2010) Methodology for the Estimation of the Increase in Time Loss due to Future Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensity in Japan, Climatic Change, vol. 102, no. 3-4, Springer.

Miguel Esteban, Christian Webersik and Tomoya Shibayama (2009) Effect of a global warming-induced increase in typhoon intensity on urban productivity in Taiwan, Sustainability Science, vol. 4, no. 2, Springer.

Christian Webersik and Clarice Wilson (2009) Achieving Environmental Sustainability and Growth in Africa: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation, Sustainable Development, vol. 17, no. 4, Wiley.

Christian Webersik (2008) Wars over Resources? Evidence from Somalia. Environment, vol. 50, no. 3, Heldref Publications, Washington D.C.

Christian Webersik (2006) Mogadishu – An Economy without a State. Third World Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 8, Routledge.

Christian Webersik (March 2005) Fighting for the Plenty – The Banana Trade in Southern Somalia, Oxford Development Studies, vol. 33, no.1, Routledge.

Christian Webersik (2004) Differences that Matter: The Struggle of the Marginalised in Somalia, AFRICA, vol. 74, no. 4, Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Christian Webersik (2013 forthcoming) Climate-related disasters and human security, in: Michael Redclift and Marco Grasso (eds.) Climate Change and Human Security, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Christian Webersik (2012 forthcoming) Securitizing Climate Change: The United Nations Security Council Debate, in: Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Norman Christensen and R.N.L (Pete) Andrews (eds.) Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook, SAGE , Thousand Oaks, CA.

Christian Webersik (forthcoming 2012) Climate Change, Water and Health: Current Impacts and Future Challenges for Human Security, in: Velma Grovers (ed.) Impact of Climate Change on Water & Health, Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Christian Webersik (forthcoming 2012) Climate-Induced Migration and Conflict: What are the Links? In: Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig (eds.) Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Christian Webersik and Marc Levy (2012) The Role of Natural Resource Management in Reducing the Risk of Conflict Recurrence, in: Carl Bruch, Carroll Muffett, and Sandra S. Nichols (eds.) Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Earthscan, London.

Christian Webersik and Alec Crawford (2012) Commerce in the Chaos: Bananas, Charcoal, Fisheries and Conflict in Somalia, in: Helen Young and Lisa Goldman (eds.) Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Earthscan, London.

Research Reports

Miguel Esteban, Christian Webersik, David Leary (2009) Nanotechnology, Ocean Energy and Forestry – Making Climate Change Mitigation Work, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Report, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

Miguel Esteban, Christian Webersik, David Leary and Dexter Thompson-Pomeroy (2008) Innovation in responding to climate change: Nanotechnology, Ocean Energy and Forestry. UNU-IAS report, United Nations University, Tokyo.

Christian Webersik and Clarice Wilson (2008) Environment for African Development: A Sustainable Future through Science and Technology. UNU-IAS report, United Nations University, Tokyo.

United Nations Development Programme (2008). Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity, Crisis Prevention and Recovery Report- United Nations Development Programme/Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP/BCPR).

United Nations Development Programme (2001) National Human Development Report Somalia 2001, United Nations Development Programme, Nairobi.